Isaac Asimov Quotes About Computers

Quotes about: Computers

• I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspiring, Fear, Humorous

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.

  Isaac Asimov

  Teacher, Math, Technology

• We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.

  Isaac Asimov

  Computer, Problem, Reaching

• Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the devil people think computers can add to the horrors.

  Isaac Asimov

  Thinking, People, Devil

  Isaac Asimov (1977). “The beginning and the end”, Pocket

• With both people and computers on the job, computer error can be more quickly tracked down and corrected by people and, conversely, human error can be more quickly corrected by computers. What it amounts to is that nothing serious can happen unless human error and computer error take place simultaneously. And that hardly ever happens.

  Isaac Asimov

  Jobs, Errors, People

• Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

  Isaac Asimov

  Honesty, Technology, Computer

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

  Isaac Asimov

  Cheer, Pregnancy, Technology

• In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite amount of data and performs a finite number of operations upon them. The human mind can duplicate the process

  Isaac Asimov

  Finite Number, Data, Numbers

  Isaac Asimov (1990). “The Complete Stories”, Broadway Books

• Fertility is hereditary. If your parents didn't have any children, neither will you. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

  Isaac Asimov

  Children, Parent, Fertility

• It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have touched, in one way or another, on every aspect of computers and computerization. And (mark this!) I did it without ever knowing anything at all about computers in any real sense. To this day, I don't. I am totally inept with machinery... on my typewriter I turn out books at the contemptible rate of one a month

  Isaac Asimov

  Real, Book, Thinking

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